Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The saving man becomes the free man.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Freedom

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert